tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1081854755492444172.post8038446455272037802..comments2024-03-09T09:33:00.697-08:00Comments on Imp of the Diverse: Tutonish — From an “Economist of Language”John Dumashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08908646219266836986noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1081854755492444172.post-68967566944353327752019-08-03T12:08:57.981-07:002019-08-03T12:08:57.981-07:00I am going through correspondence files of my late...I am going through correspondence files of my late father, who was a Pacific Northwest journalist and historian. I thought this letter excerpt might amuse you. <br /><br />Paul Sandegren (Belfair, Washington) to Murray Morgan, July 17, 1980<br />...<br />"Your lower-case style of letter writing reminds me of a person who used to have tracts printed in my father's shop. He had invented an international language which he was promoting, but about the only thing in connection with it that I remember was that he used no capital letters and had shortened the words; for instance, "e" stood for "the." His name was elias k. molee, a Norwegian, and it's a wonder that I remember his name because I'm notoriously derelict in that respect. The old guy had quite a bit of money for those days, I was told, and in one of his tracts he included his will, providing, in part, $10,000 to the University of Heidelberg if it would hold one lecture a year in the interest of his language. Whether the university ever got that $10,000 and, if so, whether the lectures were ever held I do not know. My father used to say that he would gladly have given the lectures for the 10 thou."<br /><br />Lane Morgan<br />morgancorrespondence.blogspot.com<br />Lanesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07345207327548939723noreply@blogger.com